 | Henry Scougal - 1822 - 328 pàgines
...thing to surprise and amaze us here? What better is this than our ordinary entertainment at home ? Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? * Such may be the thoughts of profane and ignorant fools; for the outside of this... | |
 | 1848 - 704 pàgines
...shalt be clean." Could anything be more easy ? The Jordan was not far distant. But what said Naaman ? " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? may I not wash in them, and be clean?" These were the rivers of Naaman's own country... | |
 | John William Cunningham - 1823 - 378 pàgines
...lying in darkness. You must not indulge the spirit which prompted the> proud captain of old to ask, " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ?" But, whatever be the course which Scripture points out, and to whatever office... | |
 | 1823 - 872 pàgines
...Barrady or Chrysorrhoas, which waters the city of Damascus and the country about it (2 Kings v. 12.). " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ?" The river of Damascus has its fountain in the mountains of Libanus. At its approach... | |
 | 1824 - 506 pàgines
...stand and call on the name of the Lord, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? May I not wash in them and be clean ? So he turned and went away in a rage. His... | |
 | 1873 - 350 pàgines
...call on the narrie of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? May I not wash in them and be clean ? So he turned and went away in a rage." What... | |
 | Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn Prichard - 1824 - 224 pàgines
...the Syrian,* when desired by Elisha to bathe in the Jordan, for the cure of his leprosy, exclaimed, ' Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? may I not wash in them and • 2 Kings, T. 13. be clean ?' In the capital of the... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1825 - 714 pàgines
...remedy? have I not oft done thus in vain? have we not better streams at home, than any Israel can afford? "are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?" Folly and pride strive for place in a natural heart, and it is hard to say whether... | |
 | 1825 - 712 pàgines
...feed on ashes; and, not knowing our moral diseases, they say, with their cousin Naanian, the Syrian, Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Jordan? Oh! pity them, my dear friends, and pray for them, for we ourselves were sometimes... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 598 pàgines
...adjacent fields, sufficiently account for the indignant reply of Naaman the Syrian, to the prophet ; " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? May I not wash in them and be clean ? So he turned, and went away in a rage." The... | |
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Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean? 
